Jill Russell

Principal @Tpo Human Resource Management Firm

Jill is a Principal and Director of TPO, and has over twenty-five years of increasingly broad and responsible experience in the field of HR Management. Jill has trained and coached hundreds of supervisors, managers, and executives in basic and complex employment skills and techniques to decrease legal exposure, and increase employee relations and productivity. Jill specializes in management and employee relations, investigating and resolving discrimination claims, executive and management level hiring and optimum performance systems, leadership skills training, and in facilitating consensus and organizational leadership initiatives with boards of directors for non-profit organizations. Jill is a Licensed Private Investigator (PI-25638) and also serves as an expert consultant to law firms engaged in employment litigation.Jill earned her national Senior Professional of Human Resources (SPHR) certification in 1993 She served as the lead instructor from 1994 to 2001 for the SHRM Learning System HRCI Certification Institute course through Chapman University. Jill is an Advisory Committee member and Past President of the Board of Directors of the Central Coast Human Resources Association (a local chapter of SHRM national). Prior to being President, she served on the CCHRA board since 1996 as Government Affairs Director. She is a past member of the Leadership Morgan Hill Board of Directors, and is a graduate of Leadership Morgan Hill class of 2004.